Author: Carina

Here you can find a selection of pictures from our trip along the Via Baltica road sorted in order of the countries we passed. By clicking on one of the pictures a slide show opens. The whole story of our trip you can read here: Via Baltica with motorbike Enjoy the pictures! Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Germany Have you been traveling along Via Baltica? Tell us your impression in the comments below! .

Of ice, cardamon buns and delicious Blinis – welcome to the second part of my monthly review series of my life in Finland… Helmikuu In Finland, February is called Helmikuu – the month of the pearl referring to ice pearls which are visible on the snow and on tree branches making the nature look truly beautiful in the sun. Days became longer (scaringly fast I have to admit) and the hours of sunshine seemed to increase daily. However, when I…

Time seems to fly, in Finland too! It’s been more than a month now since we arrived in Tampere. To remember better what has happened and to keep you updated what we’ve been up to I decided to start a series on the blog. In a monthly review I will summarize all the highlights of my new life in the North together with interesting facts I learned and funny experiences I made. I will describe my everyday life in Finland…

When I heard about Steffi’s blog parade ‘Silvester unterwegs’ – ‘New Year’s Eve abroad’ I was very excited to take part since I knew I would spend the change of the year in our new home in Tampere, Finland, already. However, it turned out that my New Year’s Eve 2014/15 would be very different from how it had been the years before! After traveling to Finland by car including 2 nights on the ferry from Travemünde to Helsinki we arrived…

I have to admit I like to read all kinds of yearly reviews on other people’s blogs or in newspapers and magazines; I even enjoy the ‘year in review’ tv shows which many people consider very annoying. I always admired and envied people who tell about life changing events that happened to them or about breathtaking adventures they went on or about brave steps in their career they took. Compared to that my past year usually looked pretty similar to…

What a coincidence that a few weeks before I live my dream of moving to another country Sabine of Ferngeweht had the nice idea to call out for a blog parade with the topic WANDERLUST “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;…

About Odysseys of a Nomad

Hi, I’m Carina – German by law, Finnish by choice, Nomadic by heart. On Odysseys of a Nomad I write about my expat life in Finland combined with past and future travel tales. Enjoy reading and happy travelling!